Focus on surplus properties for housing
By LETTERS TO THE EDITOR | According to my research, it appears that the state is using erroneous data and methods to justify its inflated housing mandate which is ruining the opportunity to provide for low-income, senior and workforce housing. As a former member of...The Real Affordability Crisis
Posted by: Bob SilvestriThe Marin Post https://marinpost.org/blog/2023/6/15/the-real-affordability-crisis “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth” ~ Joseph Goebbels. Last week, I wrote about the dismal track record of California’s state housing laws to...Opposing bad housing plan isn’t being NIMBY
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR San Francisco Chronicle Regarding “YIMBYs love to hate her. Inside one Bay Area mayor’s anti-housing campaign” (Bay Area, SFChronicle.com, June 4): I followed the link in this report to a Palo Alto Weekly article about Mayor Lydia Kou. I learned...Moving the goal posts to conceal housing policy failures
Posted by: Bob Silvestri – June 8, 2023 – 11:53am https://marinpost.org/blog/2023/6/8/moving-the-goal-posts-to-conceal-housing-policy-failures Every article we read these days about affordable housing legislation presents formulas about what percentage of...Is the housing shortage overblown? This California analyst thinks so
Most of those calculations have very little analysis behind them, says John Burns. John Burns of John Burns Research and Consulting in Irvine on Thursday, May 18, 2023. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG) By JONATHAN LANSNER | Southern California...Donate
